Inletkeeper Blog
Donlin Gold: Standing Firmly Against Free Speech for Iditarod Mushers
The Iditarod is truly the Last Great Race. But it has also struggled for funding in recent years, and in 2016, it capitulated to major sponsors – including Donlin Gold – to install a “gag rule,” which prohibits mushers from criticizing race...
New Report Tells the Real Story about Large Mines in Alaska
Inletkeeper recently reported about Alaska’s unenviable status as the most toxic state in America due to pollution from large metal mines. Today, a new report issued today by Earthworks pulls back the curtain on Alaska’s phony permitting scheme, with key...
Mike Dunleavy vs. Coastal Alaskans
It’s curious why any Governor would continually poke a stick into the eye of his constituents, but Mike Dunleavy seems to have a unique penchant for it. In just the past several months, Mike Dunleavy’s apparent distaste for coastal Alaskans has taken a variety of...
Who is in the Room?
Youth Voices are Integral in Creating a Just Transition to a Regenerative and Fossil Fuel Free Economy in Alaska by Satchel Pondolfino When you walk into a decision-making space, take note of who is in the room. The decisions that come out of that room are going to...
Alaska Leads the Nation in Toxic Releases for a Good Reason: Large Mines Like Pebble Are Toxic
In 1984, a cyanide gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people in what’s been called the world’s worst industrial disaster. Less than a year after the Bhopal disaster, a Union Carbide plant in Institute, West...
Art as Strategy: Envisioning a Just Transition
This is the second piece in a series of Inletkeeper's staff reflections from their experience at the Alaska’s first-ever Just Transition Summit Alaska’s Just Transition is about getting from where we’re at to where we want to be. We’re in a single revenue source,...
NMFS Bureaucrats Drive Beluga Whale to Edge of Extinction
On January 28, the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) announced it had been overestimating the number of endangered beluga whales for years in Cook Inlet, and said the “population is estimated to be smaller and declining more quickly than previously thought.”...
Alaskans Thank Goldman Sachs for Move Away from Fossil Fuels in the Arctic
UPDATE - FEBRUARY 3, 2020. Today, Goldman Sachs responded to the letter (see below) from over 550 Alaskans applauding its decision to stop funding fossil fuel projects in the Arctic. In a short letter, Goldman Sachs Chairman & CEO David Solomon wrote "climate...
Transition is Inevitable, Justice is Not
Kohtr'elneyh • Remembering Forward • Alaska's Just Transition Summit, January 8 - 10, 2020 • Fairbanks Kohtr'elneyh (We Remember) is the Lower Tanana language of the Benhti' Kenaga https://www.justtransitionak.org/ So what is a Just Transition? Just Transition...
Gov. Dunleavy is failing Alaska
December 30, 2019 Bob Shavelson The revelation that Gov. Mike Dunleavy parroted corporate talking points in his efforts to lobby the Trump administration to open the Pebble Mine should concern every Alaskan who cares about wild salmon and strong local economies. And...